Ash-sifter.



A. MARTEL.

ASH SIPTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-.8, 1910.

Patented June 14, 1910.

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be shaken in the hands, then, by placing the sieve upon the dust bucket and opening the damper, the dust will fall into said bucket. The damper may then be closed and the cin ders turned into the pan as above described.

The invention claimed is 1. In a portable ash sifter, the combination with an ash pan, a dust bucket, a sieve provided near its upper end with an interior flange adapted to receive and support the edge of the ash pan, and having a tubular extension adapted to extend within the ash bucket, and an exterior flange on the extension adapted to take over the upper edge of the dust bucket, whereby closed joints are made between the parts, for the purpose set forth.

2. In an ash sifter, the combination with an ash pan, a dust bucket, and a sieve adapted to be closed at its upper end by the inverted ash pan and provided with an interior flange to receive the edge of said pan, an exterior flange adjacent the lower end of said sieve and adapted to take over the edge of said bucket, and a damper arranged to close the passage to said bucket, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a portable ash sifter, the combinatibn with an ash pan, a dust bucket, and a sieve provided in its upper end with a flange adapted to receive and support the upper edge of the ash pan, a tubular extension on said sieve adapted to enter the dust bucket, semi circular, reVersely-mounted, L-shaped flanges in said extension, and a damper mounted between said flanges whereby said damper seats with one of its side edges upon one of said flanges and the other below the other flange, whereby a dust-proof closure between the sifter and the bucket is secured, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AGHILLE MARTEL.

Witnesses MERIE GATE, GEORGES PINEAU. 

